PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - October 20, 1979

October 20, 1979

The Pennsylvania Governor’s Council for Sexual Minorites was an officially appointed advisory committee created by Governor Milton J. Shapp in 1976. Governor Shapp, by executive order, declared that all executive branch offices and services were...

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics: Sodomy Laws

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - October 20, 1979

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - December 7, 1979

December 7, 1979

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics: Sodomy Laws, Prison Project, Racism, Affirmative Action Plans

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - December 7, 1979

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities ''Past Progress, Future Plans'' Draft - April 23, 1980

April 23, 1980

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics:

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities ''Past Progress, Future Plans'' Draft - April 23, 1980

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Agenda - April 23, 1980

April 23, 1980

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics:

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Agenda - April 23, 1980

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - June 3, 1980

June 3, 1980

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics: Sodomy Laws

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - June 3, 1980

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Agenda and Minutes - July 7, 1980

July 7, 1980

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics: Sexual Harassment, Sodomy Laws

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Agenda and Minutes - July 7, 1980

Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - September 8, 1980

September 8, 1980

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics:

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities Meeting Minutes - September 8, 1980

LGBT Oral History 084B: Mary Nancarrow

February 24, 2015

Mary Nancarrow grew up in a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 1960s with divorced parents and two siblings. After graduating from Shippensburg University, she became prominent in the women’s movement and the LGBT movement in...

Collection: LGBT Oral History

Topics: Feminism, Coming Out

Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)

View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 084B: Mary Nancarrow

LGBT Oral History 107: Anthony Silvestre

September 21, 2016

Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He grew up in a working-class, Italian neighborhood and is familiar with stigma. He began identifying as gay in the sixth grade, but went through school still in the closet. After high...

Collection: LGBT Oral History

Topics: HIV/AIDs

Organizations: Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, PA Rural Gay Caucus, Eromin Center (Philadelphia)

View Item: Transcription of LGBT Oral History 107: Anthony Silvestre

LGBT History Project: LGBT-074 Anthony Silvestre Collection

1973 - 1985

Anthony Silvestre was born in 1946 in the Bronx in New York. He finished his final year of college at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and then attended Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) as a graduate student.

Silvestre was...

Collection: LGBT-074 - Silvestre

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Organizations: PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Homophiles of Penn State (HOPS)

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-074 Anthony Silvestre Collection

LGBT History Project: LGBT-011 Sam Deetz Collection

1975 - 2010

Samuel Deetz was born in Quakertown, PA on April 21, 1951 and was one of eight children. His father was a minister, so his family moved from place to place throughout his childhood, until they came back to Central PA where Deetz finished high...

Collection: LGBT-011 - Deetz

Topics:

Organizations: Network Political Action Committee (PAC), Pennsylvania for Social Justice Political Action Committee (PAC), PA Rural Gay Caucus, PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-011 Sam Deetz Collection

LGBT History Project: LGBT-063 PA State Archives Transfer Collection

PA Governor’s Council for Sexual Minorities Embosser with leather case

circa 1976

This collection contains an embosser for the PA Governor’s Council for Sexual Minorities. The council was an officially appointed advisory committee created by Governor Milton J. Shapp in 1976. Governor Shapp, by executive order, declared that...

Collection: LGBT-063 - PA State Archives Transfer

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Organizations: PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-063 PA State Archives Transfer Collection

LGBT History Project: LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection

1968 - 2015; Bulk Dates 1970 - 1980

Joseph W. Burns started to donate these materials in 2013 as the first contribution of historical documents to the LGBT Center of Central PA History Project. These materials reflect his involvement in, and document, LGBTQ+ activism in Central PA...

Collection: LGBT-001 - Burns

Topics: PA Senate Bill 531, PA Senate Bill 83

Organizations: Lehigh Valley Citizens Concerned for a Better Community (CCBC), Gay Coordinating Society of Berks County, Reading (GCS Berks), PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities, Lehigh Valley Homophile Organization (Le-Hi-Ho), PA Lesbian/Gay Support Network (PALGSN), PA Rural Gay Caucus, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)

View Item: LGBT History Project: LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection, Appendix: Bibliography of books donated by Joseph W. Burns